... territory are unknown to history; making all subsequent comers intruders onto someone else's home turf. The Hopi, among other tribes, claim descendancy from the Anasazi. Their pueblo on the Black Mesa, located at Oraibi, Arizona, is one of the two oldest continuously occupied settlements north of Mexico on the North American continent. Hopi villages were built on top of defensible mesas ... . The catch was, Peabody agreed to paid the tribe only thirty-seven and one-half cents a ton for the coal. The value of the coal mined by Peabody at Black Mesa in 1980 was $311,300,000. Royalty paid t...

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